Registered Nurse - LTC

Principal Accountabilities:

▪ Prepares clinical and progress notes, coordinates services, work as liaison between treating physician and other personnel of changes in the client's condition and family members
▪ Counsels the clients and family in meeting nursing and related needs, participates in in- service programs, and supervises and teaches other nursing personnel

Specific

▪ Monitoring and recording vital signs and reporting to the treating physicians for the abnormal values
▪ Administering prescribed medications
▪ Monitoring intravenous infusions and parenteral therapies
▪ Caring of clients with Tracheostomy, gastrostomy and colostomy
▪ Carrying out nursing care to clients with Pace maker, peritoneal dialysis , and clients on ventilator
▪ Delivering Nursing care of clients with hemiplegic, paraplegic, Bells palsy, cerebral palsy, terminally ill, and elderly etc.
▪ Caring new born, pre and post-partum mothers
▪ Caring of clients with physically challenged and those who need special care at home or at their educational facility
▪ Delivering simple exercises, helping in ambulation and accompanying clients to social gathering, hospitals, other treatment facilities and out doors
▪ Caring for the wound of the patient in order to prevent exacerbation of pressure ulcers
▪ Reporting and recording of medical events, procedures and other medical parameters
▪ Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, and problems in order to report and discuss observations with a supervisor or case manager, or Medical Doctor.